Events

Photos by Time Magazine documentary photographer James Nachtwey
were projected on buildings across the world in 2008

Wouldn't it be cool to see photographs projected on the sides of iconic buildings and skyscrapers in downtown Boston?

That's the dream of some local photographers and visual artists who are working to put together a festival next fall that would use buildings and huge projectors to highlight some of the best local photography.

The walks are social events where photographers get together, usually in a downtown area or trendy section of town, to walk around, shoot photos, and generally have fun with other photographers. They last about two hours, and Connie says they're fun, free and it doesn't matter whether you're a beginner, serious amateur, or professional. All you have to do is sign up, using the event's web site, then show up.

Actress Jessica Lange, winner of two Academy Awards, discusses her book of photographs today at 6 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge (call Harvard Book Store at 617-661-1515 for tickets, $5). "50 Photographs," a portfolio of work in black-and-white, features images from Mexico, Africa, Romania, Russia, Finland, Italy, and France as well as the United States. Lange describes taking photographs as "the opposite of acting."-- The Boston Globe

Meet Brian Skerry, a corrugated-box salesman from Uxbridge. Once you've processed that snapshot and think you know who he is, meet Brian Skerry, globe-circling underwater photographer for National Geographic and other top magazines. His was a simple transformation, if you call 20 years of hard work simple.

For years before I started college, I knew I wanted to spend a semester studying abroad, but I wasn't sure where. By my junior year at Brandeis, I made up my mind to travel somewhere off the beaten path, and, of course, Madagascar is pretty far off the beaten path for someone like me....

Now that it's been several months since I returned from a week-long Rebirth Workshop in Mississippi, I'm happy to look back and provide an overview of what we did that made it such an intense experience for me as a photographer....

Thinking of ditching your separate camera and moving to just using your phone for all your photos? What apps should you go for? Instagram made headlines recently after being bought by Facebook for $1 billion. What does it include, and what else is out there?...